Always Be There

Wake Him And We Kill You

The next few days had been rough. Donnie's healing had not been easy to keep up with, even when the purple clad turtle would try and make it less of a hassle by lying and "saying" he was fine. It could be worse, though. At least he was home. Turns out Casey and Splinter have been hanging out with him more. Especially when the other three would be out patrolling and whatnot.

April had been missing the past few days. Good, that means less of a worry about a deranged psychopathic murderer coming after the poor purple turtle. Though, he couldn't help but feel a bit of sympathy whenever he thought of her. Not in a 'Shes my friend so obviously I'll let her off easy' way, but more of a 'life's been hard on her for the past few years, I gotta cut her some slack' kind of way. He felt bad, knowing he was quite possibly the cause to half if not all of her troubles.

She was just angry- I deserved it, anyway. . . A brief thought crossed his mind. Great, his self esteem is lowering as we speak.
"Yo Dee, ya there? Hellooo-" Casey waved a hand in front of his face, bringing him out of his trance.
"Oh- sorry Jones, guess I just zoned out. . ." The turtle apologized, using his T-phone text-to-speech to talk.
"It's cool, just makin' sure nothing's wrong is all." He shrugged in response, scooting closer to the turtle. "Is there something wrong?" His tone suddenly went serious. His voice lowering and his eyebrow raising.
"I- No- I'm fine-" His T-phone suddenly spoke. He was unable to speak, and likely wouldn't be able to for a while.
Casey hummed, nodding. "K, just know I'm here if ya need me. My sister's going to Indiana for a stupid vacation and my dad never notices when I'm gone."

Donnie looked at him, a look of empathy crossing over his drowsy appearance. "I'm sorry he is like that, Jones." The T-phone spoke again.
Casey looked surprised, then made a stupid grin. "Nah it's fine, that means I can hang with you all more." He sat back against the couch. "Didn't know baby gap cared so much."
Donnie tensed up, lowering his head back to his phone in attempts to hide the lightly Redding cheeks. "I simply just apologized on your father's behalf. He should be caring more about where you go at God who knows O'clock. He really needs to pay more attention to his kid ." He stopped typing on the phone, looking up slowly. (So as to not hurt his neck more.)

Casey felt his cheeks warm slightly and cleared his throat, his grin returning. "So you do care! Wow! I finally got baby gap to care about something other than-"
"Shut it, cave mouth. Anyone would if their friend's father was like that. Even Raph." Donnie responded, cutting Casey off.
"Ah, fine. I'll make fun of you later then. Let's watch a movie." Casey picked up the remote, receiving a subtle nod from Dee to start flipping through the channels.
Donnie watched him, accidentally zoning out soon after. His head was discord, thoughts running rampant as if a tornado had swept them all out of their respective order.

Great. . No doubt April is gonna go after Casey as well.
What movie is Casey putting on?
Where's sensei?
I wonder what the others are doing right now.
I'm having a talk with Casey's father when I heal. That man needs to learn how to parent.
What movie is Casey putting on?
What-
"Yoohooo, earth to gap tooth. Hellooooo?" Casey waved his hand in front of the turtle's face, snapping his fingers to get the terrapin's attention.
Donnie instantly snapped out of it, jumping as he noticed the hand in front of his face. "S-" He began, forgetting he couldn't talk and wincing as he subconsciously hovered his hands over his neck.

"Hey, hey, don't speak, yo. You know sensei said to not strain yourself." Casey stated, resting a hand on the turtles back and leaning down slightly to meet the hunched over turtles face.
Donnie just nodded, slowly sitting up straight. He grabbed his T-phone. "What did you put on?" The T-phone asked.
"Eh, I just put on IT." Casey shrugged.
Donnie just nodded slightly, turning his gaze to the movie that had just started.
"I have a feeling sensei wouldn't wanna watch it with us, since he doesn't typically watch movies, let alone horror movies. Actually, I wonder if he gets scared of horror movies. Maybe I can ask him if we can all watch The Rin-" He was cut off by a finger on his mouth, turning to look at the culprit.